Paul Anticoni, World Jewish Relief’s Chief Executive, awarded OBE in King’s Birthday Honor List. In his 19 years leading World Jewish Relief, Paul has grown the organization and its impact exponentially. Now working in 21 countries and supporting more than 140,000 people in the last year alone, World Jewish Relief, under Paul’s leadership, is leading humanitarian efforts on behalf of the Jewish community.

Mrs. Ilse Cranmer was just twelve years old when, in 1939, amid the rise of Nazi persecution, she was sent to England as part of the Kindertransport rescue operation.

Through our archives, we are still reuniting families that were separated before, during and after the Holocaust. Paul and Marietta, cousins by blood, only learned about each other’s existence recently. Their families lost contact as violence toward Jews escalated in Germany, and they had assumed the worst.

Yulia’s life before the war was good; 34-years-old, she worked as a logistician at a large enterprise, her husband also earned well. The couple enjoyed their lifestyle in pre-war Kharkiv and planned to have a child. The war has changed everything.

Hear from a member of the World Jewish Relief team after a recent trip to Uganda to see our life-changing livelihood programmes. Learn more about one of the communities we are supporting to develop sustainable livelihoods: the Abayudaya Jewish community of eastern Uganda. After helping to set up a local organization in 2018 – Jewish Response Uganda (JRU) – we have been working with the community ever since.